Everyone out of the foxholes - - back to what you were doing...

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/09/24/thr...vel/index.html

Bush scales back threat alert

From John King
CNN Washington Bureau
Tuesday, September 24, 2002 Posted: 12:26 PM EDT (1626 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush approved Tuesday lowering the government's assessment of terrorist threats down to "elevated" from "high," ending two weeks of a higher alert.

The decision means the country's color-coded alert status will drop from orange back to yellow, the midpoint of the scale.

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